Thailand: Financial Management, Project Funding and Communication

Learning financial skills to increase impact
Sound finance management is crucial to the success of any organisation or programme. When the principles are explained in a simple practical way they are easy to learn and apply. This new course starts with the basics of finance and gradually gives you a thorough working knowledge of finance and strategic finance management techniques, including ways of presenting funding proposals to maximise income. We use a mixture of approaches including discussions, participatory group work, games and individual activities. These provide you with the practical skills not only to know how the numbers are calculated, but also use finance information and systems in decision-making to strengthen capacity in organisations and programmes.

You will gain confidence so you can communicate about finance with accountants, donors and other stakeholders. This learning is grounded in innovative research and we share practical experience of communicating finance across cultures nationally and internationally. The training includes a range of written materials to use when you return to your organisation's activities, including the trainer's book Communicating Financial Management, a manual for international development workers.

Why choose this course
If you deal with finance information and systems in your work sometimes, but you have had very little if any finance training, this course is designed especially for you. Whether you work for the UN, government, NGO or private sector this training course really does build up from the basics, helping you to use your new financial skills confidently and competently and make better decisions. The course gives you a strong working knowledge of finance and finance management to give immediate benefits, which you can take back to your own as well as partner organisations.

What you will learn
The practical participatory sessions use a balance of discussions, participatory group work, games and individual activities, where you learn how to:

· apply financial management within different settings using interactive case studies and examples.

· plan and monitor budgets, using financial information to make good decisions

· assess and set up robust financial systems and control risk

· manage the expectations of donors for project funding and financial reporting and

· communicate finance management with stakeholders, across the world as well as within your office.

Daily Course Objectives

Subject to change to reflect participants' needs.

Day 1

Finance management and budget planning

· strategic overview of finance management

· all you need to know about budgeting in any organisation

· budget planning and case study

Day 2

Budget monitoring

· budget monitoring and managing cash flow

· how to use financial skills in funding

· achieving value for money

· ground rules of accounting and finance

Day 3

Making sense of finance information

· the basics of finance records and systems

· making sense of the finance statements

· working with funders, auditors, accountants and donors

Day 4

Strategic finance management and building financial capacity

· strategic finance management - core costs and reserves

· assess and reduce financial and organisational risk and uncertainty

· implement financial controls and strategies to avoid fraud

· case study on financial capacity building

Day 5

Improving communication between 'finance' and 'non-finance' people

· overcoming the challenges of communicating about finance

· practical solutions grounded in innovative research, for when working with both 'finance' and 'non-finance' cultures, and across international cultures

· different ways of working with stakeholders on finance issues.For more information please visit us at www.imainternational.com, email us on post@imainternational.com or call us on +44 (0) 1273 833030.

Apply online to book a place: http://www.imainternational.com/training_selection